An anonymous reader shares a report: The date was April 20, 1978; the scene, the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on Astor Place. On the stage where Abraham Lincoln once spoke sat two men, the Italian modernist Massimo Vignelli and the cartographer John Tauranac, constituting two sides of the Great Subway Map Debate….
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Cranberries: More than a holiday side dish
Fun facts about this floating fruit, the blueberry’s bitter cousin. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/lifeform-of-the-week-cranberries-at-their-bitter-best…
Psychedelic Precognition?
When Albert Hofmann accidentally stumbled upon the powerful mind-altering properties of lysergic acid (LSD) on April 19th, 1943 –a day that is now celebrated worldwide as ‘Bicycle Day’ in commemoration of Hofmann’s historic psychedelic commute after he had ingested 250 micrograms of the ergot compound he was studying (what we would now call “a heroic… Continue reading Psychedelic Precognition?